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Bulgarian army occupation units in Yugoslavia 1942

5th Army
24 April 1941 - 9 September 1944

5th Army (Skopje, Macedonia) South-East Serbia 50th Infantry Regiment (from 1st Infantry Division) - Pirot
52nd Infantry Regiment (from 14th Infantry Division) - Vranje
6th Infantry Division - partially in Zaječar
Macedonia 14th Infantry Division - Skopje
15th Infantry Division - Bitola
1st Cavalry Regiment (from 1st Cavalry Brigade) - Štip
2nd Cavalry Regiment (from 1st Cavalry Brigade) - Skopje

1st Occupation Corps
31 December 1941 - June/July 1942

1st Occupation Corps - formed to replace German 113th Infantry Division which left for East Front and 342nd Infantry Division which left for Bosnia.

(Central Serbia: Zaječar - Ćuprija - Kruševac - Aleksinac - Leskovac)

6th Infantry Division
17th Infantry Division
21st Infantry Division

1st Occupation Corps
June/July 1942 - Summer 1943
General Asen Nikolov

1st Occupation Corps - in early 1943 it expands to line Drina - Kraljevo - Arandjelovac - Topola so 7th SS 'Prinz Eugen' and 717th Infantry Division could leave for Bosnia, in Summer of '43 occupation zone expands again to Danube river. 9th Infantry Division 'Pleven' (replacing the 6th)
7th Infantry Division 'Rila' (replacing the 17th)
21st Infantry Division

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  • Vladimir Trendafilovski

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